383 - Blessings + Update

Oh Lord, thank you for last night. My Bible study group - Believing God Gals - came over last night and had such a great time. I almost typed fun time - it was fun, but so much more when you add ladies, the Word, and Beth Moore - it was incredible. WE did have one sweet, precious, cute as a bug in a rug girl finally ask - so how do we do this, how do we know if we are to believe and it is His will. When I went through this study the first time it took me until week 7 or 8 to ask that. I was just stunned at all of it that i just sat and didn't know what to ask. I am slow at times - no joke!!! This is cool that she is asking already - that means she is ready to believe just wants to know what to believe. The other cool thing is how we all chimed in trying to answer her question. I think the more and more we talked possibly the more confusing it got, but the bottom line is that you just have to do it - believe - and leave the rest up to Him. That was a neat time and then our prayer time on our faces before Him in my nasty carpet was awesome too!!! My favorite time!!

I have been stunned again, unable to express the neatest thing. My new friend in the blogging world, Dori, feels like a sister to me. Kind of like a twin. Our hearts scream the same desires and we laugh, struggle, and are convicted over many of the same things. It is such a breath of fresh air for me. And to think we have never met and we just recently talked over the phone. Now Dori is an accomplished singer - at least in my eyes - and was asked to sing on a worship team for Angela Thomas at one of her speaking engagements. ***Angela Thomas is pretty big time so this was a big deal.*** She told me ahead of time about this event she was doing. I told her that I had always wanted to talk with Angela because she is in speaking and has 4 kids. I knew Angela lived in Knoxville where my parents live and wanted to go ring her doorbell. The only thing stopping me was the thoughts of police driving by to pick me up for stalking. That would not go over too well in the ministry world! So after the event I got an email from Dori that something was coming in the mail and it was cool!! On Wednesday I received an AUTOGRAPHED book by Angela Thomas!! That was T-Totally special - i was wigged out in my tiny little post office... But even more special was the sweetest card Dori wrote me with the book - my treasure!! All this and Jesus, too!!! God you are so good! Thank you!

My next blessing is really cool as well. As a speaker you always dream, or at least i do, of someone really taking notice of you and wanting to help you get there - wherever that is... Side note - If i ever get there, still don't know where that is, but if i ever get there in ministry, I am going to try to help whomever I can to come along side of me. It is hard wanting to just have one conversation with an accomplished speaker and not be able to. I know I know I know - everyone wants to and there are crazies out there that would stalk (not me), but I just want to glean from what they already know.............Maybe that doesn't make sense! BUT ANYWAY... My friend, Iris, at Sting My Heart thought enough of my ministry and all to give me a shout out on her Thankful Thursday post. Then to top that off she has ordered a purse and now has ordered another one to have a give away.........................I could not be more blessed. I mean this girl has a huge ministry herself in the blogging world. On any given day she might have 30 comments on a post. That is huge because most people do not even post comments - why, I don't know, but they don't! To me that means that she believes enough in my ministering abilities and blog posts, etc. to promote all of it in hopes of generating more funds for me to do more... I am blown away... She has not had the drawing yet so go sign up.

OK - the experiment I did, or you did, yesterday was great. Remeber the clicking on Adsense... I am not sure how many of you clicked on things, but the report said that I had 30 clicks which resulted in $7.81. Now I think that is amazing... I am not sure how that is all generated (apparently i like that word today) because it doesn't seem like that many clicks for that amount of money... But anyway - If you were interested in that I say go for it. It worked or at least it works as long as peeps click on things. Kind of cool! and it is free! Thanks if you clicked - I guess i owe you!! Here is a hug (()).

Tucker is such a trooper. He is already riding his bike - one handed. Played baseball yesterday and hit a double - this was in the yard. He has had tennis lessons before and so his backhand is coming in handy now. ha ha! He isn't complaining and just being such a blessing!! Love him! One of his sweet friends and momma came by and brought cookies and playing card deally things. Tucker says no one makes cookies like Ms. Courtney. I know that melts her heart. They are so special and thoughtful. Why can i not think of those things... She is one of those that always does!! Here is Tucker and Elleigh - she has to be in all pictures - it IS an issue!!! And no - those are not morning boogers, just where he "ate" the ground in his fall. He wanted me to make sure everyone knew that. He also asked who would see the picture - I said just a few of my friends............. on the World Wide Web. I whispered that WWW part... ha ha

Life is good - oh so good, but God you are so much gooder!!! Have an awesome day!